A Close Shave

Back in the olden days, when I lived in Ohio, there was a couple of months where I was distracted and, thus, more absent-minded than usual.   I was running low on dish soap so I made sure to buy some on my next trip to the grocery store.  One money saving tip I learned during that first Bush recession was to buy larger sizes, as the unit price is usually lower.  That often wasn't the case at Kroger's, which I suspect countered the money saving tip by raising the unit price on large sizes.  In the case of Palmolive, the largest size was the least expensive per ounce. 

The next time I was in the cleaner aisle at the grocery store I "remembered" that I needed to get dish soap.  I was surprised when I got home and put the new large bottle of Palmolive under the sink.  A couple months later I had at least a half-dozen large bottles of dish soap under the sink.  I wouldn't buy it every time I went shopping, but some days it would be on my list and other days it would be an impulse purchase.  It was several years before I had to buy more.

When my father was visiting this past Christmas I realized I was almost out of shaving cream.  I live above a drug store so I just went downstairs and bought a can.   This evening, six weeks later, I saw that there already was a new container in the medicine cabinet.  The original shaving cream hasn't run out either.

Comments

[tien]

since i've been going to shannan's parents for xmas (2nd year was this past year), i've been getting shaving cream. it's given as part of a stocking stuffer. this november, i was almost done with my shaving cream and was all, "great i can use the one your mom got me last year!" as in 2006. well, i didn't start using that one until a couple weeks ago and also got another can in 2007. i think i go through 3/4 of one a year, so i will soon have as many shaving creams as you did dish soap.

[Steve]

That's the same kind I use. I love my Barbasol aloe!